PETER YU

8days.sg met the 54-year-old actor earlier this month at the Fix My Life press conference, where he talked to us about the value.

When I was younger I always had money to spend and life was good. In fact, my wife and I are going to Japan. So I took the money and bought a Rolex for my wife. I didn’t know what it meant to have savings. You know, smoking a packet of cigarettes costs about $10, and I used to smoke one packet a day. Now when I save money, I realise that I can put it aside for the kids’ insurance and for red packets during Chinese New Year. I would spend S$12 to S$13 a day to enjoy the smoke. I know what I wanted to do, and that’s very important. When there’s turbulence I will pray, and I don’t feel worried, because I know problems are inevitable, unlike in the past. In my twenties, when I was with Mediacorp. I used to smoke. “One day, I went to shoot a short film at a house that has a lot of antique things.